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Title: A Working Girl Can't Win : And Other Poems by Deborah Garrison ISBN: 0-679-45145-5 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 03 February, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.21 (28 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Fun, Make-You-Think Reading
Comment: I picked this book off the shelf by chance. My good luck.
Deborah Garrison's little book of poetry is a treasure. It's funky, funny, wonderful reading. This collection will impress any lover of poetry, whether you just started reading yesterday or you've been a fan for years.
Her writing is accessible. Her writing is real; while she wants to be a "modern" woman, all unoppressed and girl power-ish, she is still a human. And she let's you know that up front. One of the best things about it is that you don't have to break out a dictionary to understand it. And it doesn't take days worth of analyzation to get through a few lines either. Buy it!
Rating: 2
Summary: underbaked and flat
Comment: Great idea for a collection--poems from the point of view of a female office worker. But there's not much empathy, not much risk, not much music, not much wit, not much anything here. These are above all intellectually and linguistically lazy poems which aim for irony but seldom get beyond archness. No perceptions you couldn't find in the pages of a woman's magazine or on a TV-show about working women--and not even as entertaining as any number of chick lit novels.
Rating: 5
Summary: Chick-lit poetry
Comment: It's Bridget Jones country, which I don't think is such a terrible thing. And it's easy to read, which I don't think is such a terrible thing. The poems tell of the men in the poetess's life, from her mother's lovers to her boss, the other men at her job, and her husband. It's in the colloquial style of the English Movement, with something of the American Confessional. Sometimes (at least in the Fight Song) it even scans and rhymes.
The five stars are not because it's GREAT poetry, but because it's enjoyable, true-to-life and readable...
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Title: Home and Away: Poems by Rachel Wetzsteon ISBN: 0140588922 Publisher: Penguin USA Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: 101 Poems That Could Save Your Life : An Anthology of Emotional First Aid by Daisy Goodwin ISBN: 006052913X Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 24 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Sailing Alone Around the Room : New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins ISBN: 0375755195 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Song and Dance: Poems by Alan Shapiro ISBN: 0618152857 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 21 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Beauty Is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo by Carole Maso ISBN: 1582430896 Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: 05 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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